Sermons on John- Robert Morgan | Precept Austin. Introduction - Robert J Morgan is the teaching pastor at Donelson Fellowship in Nashville, Tennessee and is well known for expository messages that are rich in excellent illustrations of Biblical principles. These sermons are older messages preached on various passages in Romans. John - Surprised by Joy! In Him Was Life. John 1: 1 And the Word Was God - 1. John 1: 1 And the Word Was God - 2. John 1 Believe Series: Aslan's Song. John 1: 1- 5 The Lamppost at Lantern Waste. John 1: 1- 1. 0 Flashlights and Mirrors at Christmas. John 1: 1. 0- 1. 4 Once He's With Us, We Can Do Things. John 1: 1- 1. 8 One Blessing After Another" - A Verse for the New Year. John 1: 2. 9 Mary Had a Little Lamb. John 3: 1. 6 Sermon. John 4: 1- 3. 2 Who Can You Win to Christ This Year?
John 5: 3. 1- 4. 0, 4. Fulfilled Prophecy - The Case Against All Odds. John 1. 1 Death Into Life. John 1. 4 What the Resurrection Gives Me. John 1. 4: 1. 6- 1. God in Three Persons. John 1. 6: 3. 3 Be of Good Cheer! I Have Overcome the World. John 1. 7 God in Three Persons. John 1. 8: 3. 7- 3. Ele Okaka Helene visited the Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) where she received the Morning Water. The journey marked a turning point in her life. The Enemy - Moral Relativism. John 2. 0: 3. 0- 3. John 5: 1. 3 A is for Assurance of Salvation. SURPRISED BY JOY! IN HIM WAS LIFE…. Robert Morgan. John 1: 1- 5. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1: 1- 5. NKJV)Once a few Sundays ago I used a word that some people had not previously heard, and so today before we get into the sermon I thought I’d just share with you some words and their definitions to make sure we’re all on the same page. I keep a dictionary right above my desk, and I enjoy searching out new words and their meanings; and I thought I’d share with you some interesting definitions.• Antique: An item your grandparents bought, your parents got rid of, and you're buying again.• Atheism: A non- prophet organization• Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.• Cannibal: Someone who is fed up with people.• Feedback: The inevitable result of feeding a baby strained carrots.• Grandparents: People who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right.• Paradox (par'- u- doks'): Two physicians• Secret: Something you tell to one person at a time.• Gossip: A twenty- four hour teller• Toothache: The pain that drives you to extraction.• Traffic Light: An apparatus that automatically turns red when your car approaches.• Buffet: A French word that means "Go get it yourself."• Tattoo: Permanent proof of temporary insanity. Well, most words are easy to define, but there is one word for which I have never read an adequate definition. I don’t think there is one; and that presents a real problem because it is the key word in our text today—LIFE. Life is very hard to define. The dictionary I typically use is Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, the Ninth Edition, and so as I prepared this message I turned to the word “life” to check out the definition. As you would expect, there was a long string of definitions, but the first one set the tone for the others. And yet, it wasn’t much of a definition. It said: The quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body. In other words, life is the state of not being dead. The Greek here doesn’t help us very much either. The Greek word that John used was ζωή – zo’a - - and the lexicon defines it asthe physical vitality of organic beings, whether they are plants, animals, or humans. In other words, life is the state of being alive, of having physical vitality. God in His omniscient creative genius designed this universe with two types of matter—animate and inanimate, living and non- living; and He achieved perfect balance between the two. I can’t provide a good definition of this word, but we can study out its description and usage in the Gospel of John, because he uses this word life again and again and again. It is one of his themes. You say, “Well, how many themes does John have in His Gospel.” As we’ve looked at every verse up to this point in the prologue of John, I’ve used that same phrase, “This is one of the themes of the Gospel.” So you may be wondering how many themes John has? Well, he has several themes, and of course he introduces them in his prologue. That’s what a prologue is—it is a section at the beginning of the book that serves as an introduction. And so John says: Here is what this book is about. I’m going to tell you about these themes. It’s about Jesus who is the Word. It’s about Jesus who is deity. It’s about Jesus who is the agent of Creation. It’s about Jesus who is the Life of man and the Light of the world.”This word in John 1: 3—life—is used nearly fifty times in the fourth Gospel, and I do not know of any way to explain this word “life” in John 1: 3 except to show you how this word and this theme unfolds as we read through the book. We can’t look up all fifty occurrences, of course, but we can look at some keys, starting with the first time this word occurs in the actual body of the book of John—John 3: 1. We find LIFE in John 3: 1. Whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal LIFE. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting LIFE…. He who believes in the Son has everlasting LIFE; but he who does not believe the Son shall not see LIFE, but the wrath of God abides on Him. I’ve been thinking of one day planning and preaching an entire series of sermons just on John 3: 1. I was studying this verse, I recalled that it has been called the Gospel in a Nutshell; and as I worked through it I saw why. Just look at that word GOSPEL. It is really there in John 3: 1. G – God so loved the world that He gave His. O – Only begotten. S – Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not. P – Perish, but have. E – Everlasting. L – Life. Now this adds an important modifier to the word life. It’s a pair of adjectives that John uses over and over—eternal and everlasting. It isn’t just life that Jesus gives us; it is eternal and everlasting life. We find LIFE in John 4: 1. Jesus answered and said to (the Samaritan woman), “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”I sometimes wonder if John the evangelist was melancholic, if he worried about the brevity of life, if he brooded over dying. The reason I wonder is because he seemed to pick up his ears every time he heard Jesus use that phrase “everlasting life” or “eternal life.”• Matthew repeats that phrase three times.• Mark uses the phrase “eternal life” or “everlasting life” twice.• Luke, three times.• But in the Gospel of John, it’s found seventeen times, and in all of John’s writings it occurs twenty- three times. I think one of the reasons John loved this phrase is because he knew more about it than most of us. There were two men in the New Testament were given the opportunity to preview eternal life. You might say they got to see the trailer, the previews of this coming attraction. They were able to see beyond the clouds and behind the curtain, to see what lies ahead in eternity. In 2 Corinthians 1. Paul was caught up into the third heaven, but he wasn’t permitted to describe the scene. In the book of Revelation, John was given the same opportunity, but he was allowed to record his observations. He was transported by divine vision into the third heaven where he saw the angels worshipping and the Holy City being prepared. He saw the events of the Tribulation unfold, and he toured the streets of gold. He described it for us in vivid detail in the book of Revelation, and God saw fit to end the Bible with a two- chapter lay- out of the new heavens, the new earth, and the New Jerusalem. So it seems to me that John had a keen interest in this subject, and he jotted down the words Jesus spoke anytime this subject came up. Here in John 4, it came up as Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman.
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